They hold heat after the boiler shuts off providing a very steady comfortable temperature.

If the temperature control systems you install work, then shipping container homes can be just as comfortsable and spaceous as any conventionally built home plus all of your earthquake proofing and wind resistence is buit in requiring little extra money to include.

The thermostat is in a common area and the tenants continuously crank it up to absurdly hot temperatures.

The motion sensor sitting on the counter lets me know when someone is in the house, and I also got the temperature sensor in case the furnace goes out.

So far, so good.Vinyl products are of the glue-down, peel and stick, and floating systems.Vinyl shrinks and grows with temperatures as they fluctuate.

We had several extended periods with abnormally low temperatures in Dallas this past winter, that will create high electric bills in an all electric home.You said you replaced the A/C when you purchased the home, did you by chance have heat pumps installed or is the heat just resistive heat (very expensive).Even with heat pumps, when the temps get into the teens, the cost to heat goes up significantly.

@Andrew S.Unless Even if the other units have ducting outside of the conditioned space, I fully expect the OP will see a substantial difference in utility consumption to maintain the living space at the same temperature as the others.However, before ripping out and relocating the present furnace, it may be possible to encase it in a heavily insulated box and thereby mitigate some of the loss presently experienced.

Davis said the department has filed 114 court cases involving 887 residential units for heat-related complaints.January 12th article - CHICAGO — On Friday, the city took the landlords of 20 properties, or 280 residential units, to an emergency heat court hearing to force them to restore heat for their tenants after last week's frigid temperatures yielded hundreds of complaints from renters and nearly 500 property inspections from the city.http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150109/downtown/c...

The objective is to keep the roof deck in a constant temperature range and not move the condensation point on the wrong side of the deck.Up here (above Maine) we are in what the IECC would rank as Zones 6 & 7 and the minimum R-value for a ceiling/roof is R49.  

Her AC unit has seemed to be working just fine since she replaced the filter.... wonder if it will keep up as the temperatures are already looking to reach 100 Sunday here!